Unfortunately, when I try to edit an XML, trying to read that dark blue against black is murder. I am amazed that Googling "joe editor change highlighting" returns nothing! Is it really impossible to ...

When I open Gedit in my Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon 64-bit, the syntax highlight is off by default. I can then activate it via the menu, or by saving my file with the correct file extension (e.g., every ...

In Kate one can export file Fortran.katehlcolor which store the information about color in syntax-highlighting.
The syntax-highlighting files itself are located in ~/.kde/share/apps/katepart/syntax ...

Often I have to open header-files (with ending .h) in Kate. The default syntax-highlighting with which these files will be opened is always C++. How could this be changed to Fortran so that I don't ...

When I ssh from work to the local network, I can turn syntax on in my vim instance and it works. When I go home and ssh in, I turn on syntax highlighting and nothing happens. While at home, if I use ...

Is it possible to get syntax highlighting for LaTeX code blocks in ikiwiki (just something like it is automatically done in tex.sx)?
To avoid misunderstandings: I don't mean math output produced for ...

I love vim's colorization of /var/log/messages, but it only works for that – the absolute filename. It doesn't work for older rotations of messages (e.g. /var/log/messages-20120610) or for messages ...

Considering the large amount of questions which turn out to be related to subshells in Bash ("Why doesn't my variable increment in this piped while read loop?"), I just thought it would be very nice ...

I need to connect to a remote server by SSH to edit some documents. When I work at home, I SSH to the remote server using SSH Secure Shell and open emacs, but it doesn't fully highlight documents as I ...

I'm using vim to try a template system named handlebars, and I installed a vim plugin to get some syntax-highlighting for *.handlebars. I can get coloration if I do this : :set filetype=handlebars, ...